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My home is making me (and my
neighbours) sickCHRA Pre-CongressJune 20, 2011
Michael ShapcottDirector, Housing and InnovationThe Wellesley Institute
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Toro
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1910
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Dr Bruce
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Toronto 1911:Founding of
Wellesley Hospital
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“Our survey of Toronto housing conditions reveals thousands of families living in houses which are insanitary, verminous, and grossly overcrowded... Bad houses are not only a menace: they are active agents of destruction... they destroy happiness, health and life...”
Dr. H.A. Bruce, Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, 1934
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Toronto’s Moss Park neighbourhood
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New ‘garden city’ neighbourhood
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Bad housing makes you sick!Homelessness:
Increased morbidityIncreased premature morality
Mental health:Alarming rates... especially
Clinical depression and anxietyControl / meaning Collective efficacy
Biological / physical:Chemicals, gases, pollutantsDesign (accidents) / crowdingSocio-economic:
Affordability / energy Transportation / income / jobs
Contextual:Individual / neighbourhood deprivation
networks / friends / crime
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Good housing good for health!Personal health:
Improved health outcomesReduced health care needs
Population health:Stronger neighbourhoods
Collective efficacy
Socio-economic:Jobs / income
Economic impact
Fiscal:Reduced health, social services,
policing, justice spending
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Bad for people -
bad for economy“We are used to thinking of affordable housing as both a social and a health issue... in study after study, researchers have shown a strong correlation exists between neighbourhoods with poor quality housing and lower health outcomes.”
“However, working to find solutions to problem of affordable housing is also smart economic policy. An inadequate supply of housing can be a major impediment to business investment and growth, and can influence immigrants’ choices of where to locate.”
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Homelessness is bad for business and the federal government does not have a national plan to end homelessness in Canada.
A national plan to end homelessness will clearly set goals, objectives, metrics and outcomes and provide the proper mechanisms... Without a clear strategy to direct national efforts to end homelessness, businesses will continue to be negatively impacted by the growing crisis.
September 2010
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Canada’s Economic Action Plan: Seventh Report to Canadians, January 2011
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‘Wicked’ policy problems cannot be ‘solved’ with a program here or an investment there. They require interventions by multiple actors over the long term.
We can’t just throw up our hands and say it all is too complex. We need policy thinking, strategic
investment, and service interventions that address complex problems...
Comprehensive community initiatives bring together service providers, people with lived experience, community leaders and others to
build broad collaborations to address the roots of local problems in specific communities.”
Bob
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Wellesley Urban Health Model(as of September, 2010)
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Ontario’s 2011 Pre-Budget Consultations:
Finance Minister Duncan:
Don’t ask me to spend money, I don’t have any money now
Don’t tell me that I can save money in the future, because I still don’t
have any money now
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Infrastructure Ontario affordable housing loan fund
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Since 2001, Homeward Trust has disbursed $115
million to 275 projects, leveraging additional funds
for total value of $233 million
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Social impact bonds
Innovative financial instrument to capitalize
in current dollars the future savings of policy
initiatives
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Almost everything
connected to everything else
Real world complex, dynamic
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Thank you!
www.wellesleyinstitute.com
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